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@@ -0,0 +1,798 @@ +Version 2.77.29 - 28 May 2010, Thomas Backlund + +- move gurpmi upgrade log to .MgaOnline/ too so /root stays clean + +Version 2.77.28 - 28 May 2010, Thomas Backlund + +- disable suggesting powerpack upgrade (mga #1153) +- dont pollute homedir with urpmi.cfg backup files (move to .MgaOnline/) + +Version 2.77.27 - 27 May 2010, Thierry Vignaud + +- disable features not supported on Mageia but that do exist on mdv: + Enterprise Media, Extended Maintenance, Restricted media (mga#1153) + +Version 2.77.26 - 21 May 2010, Thierry Vignaud + +- handle both MageiaUpdate & MandrivaUpdate + +Version 2.77.25 - 19 May 2010, Thierry Vignaud + +- use https protocol instead of http in order to retrieve distro list + +Version 2.77.24 - 14 May 2011, Anne Nicolas + +- update icons and pixmaps for Mageia + +Version 2.77.23 - 14 May 2011, Anne Nicolas + +- fix typo in MageiaUpdate name + +Version 2.77.22 - 13 Mae 2010, Thierry Vignaud + +- rename as mgaonline +- use MGA API +- unbreak one year of "mdv maintenance" + +Version 2.77.21 - 29 Jul 2010, João Victor Duarte Martins + +- Correctly add '--testing' when calling mdkapplet-add-media-helper. + +Version 2.77.20 - 27 Jul 2010, João Victor Duarte Martins + +- mdkapplet-upgrade-helper now tries to restart mdkapplet if it is + running (#59481). +- Fix bug related to upgrading GTK to break mdkonline (#59025). + +Version 2.77.19 - 07 Jun 2010, João Victor Duarte Martins + +- mdkapplet-add-media-helper replaces + mdkapplet-extended-maintenance-helper + +Version 2.77.18 - 01 Jun 2010, João Victor Duarte Martins + +- Updated powerpack offering upgrade dialogs +- Fix translating utf8 strings in mdkapplet-add-media-helper (#59509) + +Version 2.77.17 - 26 May 2010, Eugeni Dodonov + +- updated translations. +- Install mdkapplet-add-media-helper to replace + mdkapplet-enterprise-update-helper and mdkapplet-restricted-helper (#59500) + +Version 2.77.16 - 19 May 2010, João Victor Duarte Martins + +- Translations updates. +- Powerpack offering feature during upgrade is functional. + +Version 2.77.15.19 - 18 May 2010, João Victor Duarte Martins + +- mdkapplet-upgrade-helper + o Fixed log file name bug (#59200). + o Offers users Powerpack medias before upgrade +- mdkapplet-restricted-helper + o Fixed password field bug (#59201). + +Version 2.77.15.18 - 30 April 2010, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet + o do not offer distribution upgrade on OEM Philco systems +- mdkapplet-extended-maintenance-helper + o install only on distributions with extended maintenance + (2008.0, 2009.0, 2010.0) + +Version 2.77.15.17 - 10 February 2010, Thierry Vignaud +- mdkapplet + o fix dates display wrong by one month + o fix new distro popup appearing on 2008.0 after choices have been displayed + o ignore lines starting with # in distro list + +Version 2.77.15.16 - 5 February 2010, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet + o do not check for new distro when using extended maintenance + o further fix notifying extended maintenance taking over regular + maintenance + o warn when extended maintenance is over + +Version 2.77.15.15 - 4 February 2010, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet + o advertize only once when has extended maintenance when + regular one is expired + o fix notifying extended maintenance taking over regular maintenance + +Version 2.77.15.14 - 3 February 2010, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet-extended-maintenance-helper + o add a 'Lifetime policy' button + o display 'no more supportion' dialog only once + +Version 2.77.15.13 - 3 February 2010, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet + o prevent displaying twice the same 'no longuer supported' dialog + +Version 2.77.15.12 - 3 February 2010, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet + o do not display 'distro upgrade' in the menu when in 'no longuer + supported' mode + +Version 2.77.15.11 - 3 February 2010, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet + o fix a banner title + o hide the icon if "do nothing" was choosen + +Version 2.77.15.10 - 3 February 2010, Thierry Vignaud + +- fix setting version + +Version 2.77.15.9 - 3 February 2010, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet + o fix crashing when clicking on notification + +Version 2.77.15.8 - 2 February 2010, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet-extended-maintenance-helper + o fix retrieving password with older gtk+ + o remember the email when an error occured + +Version 2.77.15.7 - 2 February 2010, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet + o actually honor DO_NOT_ASK_FOR_NO_MORE_SUPPORTED + o do not backport the "live upgrade" feature on 2008.0 since it's + unsupported/untested (missing urpmi support) + o restore old behaviour when detecting a new distro + o make link button usable in no more supported dialog + +Version 2.77.15.6 - 2 February 2010, Thierry Vignaud + +- fix reported version +- revert change in 2.77.15.5 that pulled too many packages +- translations updates + +Version 2.77.15.5 - 27 January 2010, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet + o fix a test + o skip some messages once extended maintenance has been enabled + +Version 2.77.15.4 - 27 January 2010, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet-extended-maintenance-helper + o better banner titles + o fix adding media on 2008.0 where --xml-info option is not supported + o fix getting password when not embedded in mcc +- mdkapplet + o advertize when one has extended maintenance when regular one is + expired + o better notification message for no longuer supported distro + +Version 2.77.15.3 - 26 January 2010, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet-extended-maintenance-helper + o retrieve product URL instead of relying on caller to provide it +- mdkapplet + o enable to run on 2008.0 + +Version 2.77.15.2 - 25 January 2010, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet + o enable to share some code with mcc + +Version 2.77.15.1 - 25 January 2010, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet-extended-maintenance-helper + o do not show banner in error dialog when embedded in mcc + o fix getting password when embedded in mcc + +Version 2.77.15 - 21 January 2010, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet + o allow to get extended maintenance on some distributions + o fix accepting values vritten by configurator (#56348) +- mdkapplet-config + o hide non available options instead of making them insensitive + (#56637) +- include distribution version in user agent + +Version 2.77.14 - 9 December 2009, Thierry Vignaud + +- drop diagnostics, strict, vars and warnings pragmas +- mdkapplet-config + o make sure dialog is properly sized + +Version 2.77.13.1 - 9 December 2009, Thierry Vignaud + +- translations updates + +Version 2.77.13 - 26 November 2009, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet-config + o offer a couple more options regarding checks + +Version 2.77.12 - 26 November 2009, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet-restricted-helper: + o fix running on 2008.1 (#55956) + +Version 2.77.11 - 24 November 2009, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet-config + o make it work on 2008.x & 2009.x +- mdkapplet-enterprise-update-helper + o new authentication scheme (#55735) + +Version 2.77.10 - 19 November 2009, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet + o add mdkonline version to distribution list requests + o log crashes of mdkapplet checker process + o only enable 'download all packages at once' on 2010.1 and further + o prevent checker process from crashing on 2008.1 and 2009.0 + +Version 2.77.9 - 10 November 2009, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet + o add distribution version to distribution list requests + o fix a crash (#55346) + o fix adding restricted media (#55320) + o warn about new distro or no more supported distro only after all + updates were applied +- mdkapplet-upgrade-helper + o make sure utf8.pm is loaded before starting an upgrade (#55090) + +Version 2.77.8 - 5 November 2009, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet + o do not do anything if current distribution isn't listed on + api.mandriva.com, thus fixing offering to upgrade 2010.0 to 2009.1 + (#55017) + +Version 2.77.7 - 29 October 2009, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet + o better check for detecting if current distro is obsolete + +Version 2.77.6 - 16 September 2009, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet + o display a "download all packages at once" option + o offer to select where to download packages +- mdkapplet-enterprise-update-helper, mdkapplet-restricted-helper: + o escape password because urpmi and its downloaders do not like + some characters + +Version 2.77.5 - 8 September 2009, Aurelien Lefebvre + +- mdkapplet-config + o use GtkHScale instead of GtkEntry (Require drakxtools >= 12.48) +- mdkapplet + o use https to fetch mirrorlist from api.mandriva.com + +Version 2.77.4 - 29 July 2009, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet-config + o better looking when embedded in MCC + +Version 2.77.3.1 - 29 July 2009, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet-enterprise-update-helper + o fix my.mdv.com URL + +Version 2.77.3 - 28 July 2009, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet-enterprise-update-helper + o gracefully handle (rare) server issues (#51299) + o use proper URL for MES + +Version 2.77.2 - 24 July 2009, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet, mdkapplet-enterprise-update-helper + o do not display PowerPack but real product name (#52292) + o on MES5, offer to add update media from authenticated server +- mdkapplet-restricted-helper + o gracefully handle (rare) server issues (#51299, #51548) +- mdkapplet + o if current distribution is no more supported, warn so and offer to + upgrade to latest release +- mdkapplet-upgrade-helper + o remove the "upgrade in progress" flag when adding media failed + (might fix #50450) + +Version 2.77.1 - 12 May 2009, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet + o add 2009.1 restricted media on 2009.1 (#50478) + o remember a new distro exists when checking for updates (distro + check is less frequent) (#50535) + o perform initial check after 3 seconds when using --testing +- mdkapplet-restricted-helper + o prevent having to cancel several time (#48999) + +Version 2.77 - 17 April 2009, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet + o do not complain when network is down if net_applet is running + (which will already warn about this) + +Version 2.76.2 - 15 April 2009, Thierry Vignaud + +- translation updates + +Version 2.76.1 - 30 March 2009, Thierry Vignaud + +- translation updates + +Version 2.76 - 25 March 2009 + +- mdkapplet-config + o display update frenquency in hours + o display intial delay in minutes + o ensure update frenquency is at least 1 hour + +Version 2.75 - 19 March 2009 + +- mdkapplet + o check all media for update on cooker instead only update media + o update all media on cooker instead of only update media + +Version 2.74 - 16 February 2008 + +- mdkapplet-config + o add an updates configurator (#37903) + +Version 2.73 - 11 February 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o do not hide urpmi.update arguments (#47002) + o be nicer with CPU (more efficient system power usage) + o only warn about locked urpmi DB after 10 tries + +Version 2.72 - 16 December 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o do not claim there're updates when there're not if check for + missing resctricted media is disabled (#46291) + (regression introduced in 2.68) + +Version 2.71.4 - 11 December 2008 + +- mdkapplet-restricted-helper + o use 'always' policy for downloading XML metadata so that non root + users can read themx + +Version 2.71.3 - 9 December 2008 + +- mdkapplet-restricted-helper + o add arch in media names + +Version 2.71.2 - 9 December 2008 + +- mdkapplet-restricted-helper + o warn if user's rigths have expired or he's not subscribed + +Version 2.71.1 - 4 December 2008 + +- mdkapplet-restricted-helper + o display a success message when media were successfully added + +Version 2.71 - 3 December 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o explain what is restricted media before actually asking for root + privileges +- mdkapplet-restricted-helper + o add 32 bit repositories on x86_64 too + o fix banners' titles + o fix vertical spacing between entries + o prevent typing in empty password or login + o report urpmi.addmedia errors + o rephrase some strings (explaining what are restricted media) + +Version 2.70.1 - 1 December 2008 + +- mdkapplet-restricted-helper + o only tag restricted/updates as 'update', not restricted/release + +Version 2.70 - 1 December 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o check we have both restricted/release & restricted/updates +- mdkapplet-restricted-helper + o add both newly created restricted/release & restricted/updates media + +Version 2.69 - 24 November 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o really check again after adding update media + o update status once restricted media got added +- mdkapplet-restricted-helper + o make sure added media names match our naming policy + +Version 2.68.2 - 20 November 2008 + +- mdkapplet-restricted-helper + o fix spacing + +Version 2.68.1 - 20 November 2008 + +- mdkapplet-restricted-helper + o pack buttons at start + +Version 2.68 - 20 November 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o offer to add the restricted update medium if not available + +Version 2.67 - 23 October 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o do not advise to use AC & wired network when not using a laptop + +Version 2.66 - 22 October 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o further fix testing for /var/lib/urpmi/stale_upgrade_in_progress + o make sure confirm dialog is large enough on 2008.1 + o use wizard button order in confirm dialogs + +Version 2.65 - 22 October 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o fix testing for /var/lib/urpmi/stale_upgrade_in_progress + o explicitely wrap labels (for 2008.1) + o use Next/Cancel instead of Yes/No in confirmation dialogs + +Version 2.64 - 21 October 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o be able to detect unfinished upgrades, even if mandriva-release + already got upgraded + o confirmation dialog for system upgrade: + * advise that it may take a couple hours + * advise the need for high BW network + * advise to close other applications + * advise to use AC & wired network when using a laptop + * display estimated size of downloads + o new distro notification bubble: + * change button from "Upgrade the system" to "More Information" + * set urgency as 'low' +- mdkapplet-upgrade-helper + o disable custom downloader settings in order to default to aria2 + o disable the X screen saver while upgrading the system + o offer to retry the upgrade if it failed + o when updates succeeded: + * offer to reboot + * s/should/must/ + +Version 2.63 - 16 October 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o really prevent upgrading more than once at a time + +Version 2.62 - 15 October 2008 + +- mdkapplet-upgrade-helper + o check available free space, disallow upgrade if not enough room +- mdkapplet + o update media in chroot when using --urpmi-root + +Version 2.61 - 15 October 2008 + +- mdkapplet-upgrade-helper + o display error dialog instead of success one when we cannot add the + media + o updade media between gurpmi passes in case mirrors got updated if + needed + +Version 2.60 - 14 October 2008 + +- mdkapplet-upgrade-helper + o ensure gurpmi is not killed after 10min + o ensure gurpmi error status is correctly catched + o instead of passing hand-crafter mirrorlist for new distro, use a magical + environment variable that is used by new urpmi + +Version 2.59 - 14 October 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o do not restart the applet on package update anymore +- mdkapplet-upgrade-helper + o call gurpmi with --clean + o log where gurpmi logs are ending + o log gurpmi STDERR too + o make all gurpmi passes using --replacefiles instead of just the + first one + o restore urpmi media if adding new distribution media failed + +Version 2.58 - 14 October 2008 + +- mdkapplet-upgrade-helper + o enable to test distro upgrade even when service is disabled + through either --testing option or "TEST_DISTRO_UPGRADE=yes" in + /etc/sysconfig/mdkapplet + +Version 2.57 - 14 October 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o make sure to not report new distro after distro upgrade + o reread distro release after distro upgrade + +Version 2.56 - 14 October 2008 + +- drop PAM permissions for urpmi.removemedia (introduced in 2.46) +- mdkapplet + o log reason as well as current & target distro for distro upgrade + o do not crash if image cannot be loaded (#44750) + o split upgrade code into mdkapplet-upgrade-helper: + * ask for root password earlier, before removing media (#44771) + * log where is backuped urpmi.cfg + * run up to 4 gurpmi passes if needed + +Version 2.55 - 10 October 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o do not display gurpmi log errors when done installing updates, + only do it for distribution upgrade + +Version 2.54 - 10 October 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o do not wrongly propose distribution upgrade after installing updates + o do not display "Congratulations" dialog when done installing updates, only + do it for distribution upgrade + +Version 2.53 - 9 October 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o do not check for new distro on Flash + (not enough disk space) + +Version 2.52.2 - 8 October 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o prevent upgrading more than once at a time + +Version 2.52.1 - 8 October 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o explicitely wrap labels b/c 2008.1's mygtk2 didn't wrap + +Version 2.52 - 7 October 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o add a banner and pack Ok button to the right in success dialog + +Version 2.51 - 7 October 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o display a success or an error message at end of installation + o keep update log and tell users where they are if upgrade failed + o make "Distro Upgrade" confirmation dialog wider + o run gurpmi with --replacefiles option (so that temporary file + conflicts doesn't break upgrade due to missing conflict tags) + (needs urpmi 6.14.1 from updates) + +Version 2.50 - 6 October 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o enable to globally enable/disable new distribution check + o "Distro Upgrade" confirmation dialog: + * display a banner + * display an URL link button + * display nicer distribution name + o when performing distro upgrade: + * enable to remove media in chroot specified by --urpmi-root + * run a 2nd gurpmi pass if first failed + +Version 2.49 - 3 October 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o compute regular updates even if there's a new distro + o enable to not check again for new distro + o when a new distro is available: + * add an "upgrade system" in the menu + * ask for confirmation before performing distro upgrade + * if there're updates, install regular updates instead of + performing distro upgrade on left click + * only show "Install updates" in right menu only if there actually + are updates + * use blue icon + +Version 2.48 - 2 October 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o do not complain if urpmi DB is locked by another program, just + wait for next check slot + +Version 2.47 - 2 October 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o prevent SIGCHILD handler's waitpid to interfere with urpmi waiting + for curl exit code, which broke downloads + o workarounding issue with downloading files as user + +Version 2.46 - 2 October 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o fix backuping urpmi.cfg + o fix removing media as user + +Version 2.45 - 2 October 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o workarounding downloading distro list as user for 2008.1 where + sometimes urpmi reports it failed to download the list when it + actually did with success + +Version 2.44 - 30 September 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o add support for downloading distro list as user for 2008.1 + o better check in order to exclude cooker from distro upgrade + +Version 2.43 - 30 September 2008 + +- mdkapplet + o don't show the applet when there's no network (#40708) + +Version 2.42 - 4 September 2008 + +- mdkapplet: + o fix dowloading distributions list + o offer to add media directly from bubble (#39987) + o prevent running media manager more than one at a time + o run media manager with --no-splash' option and handle "--urpmi-root=$root" + o check again after adding update media + +Version 2.41 - 7 August 2008, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet: + o add support for --rpm-root=foobar and --urpmi-root=foobar + o add support for live upgrade when a new distributions is released + +Version 2.40 - 8 May 2008, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet: + o run MandrivaUpdate with --no-splash option in order to skip splash + screen (#40366) + +Version 2.39 - 21 March 2008, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet: + o check for network just before first check + o do not check for network while checking for updates + o do not show icon while checking if previously hidden + o do not show icon while waiting for initial check + o do not skip first RPM check (change made in 2.16 in march 2007) + o do not start network cyclic checks before first media test (#38991) + o kill suppport for bundles + o reduce resident size by 9MB aka 30% (#31860) + +Version 2.38 - 20 March 2008, Thierry Vignaud + +- do not display "install updates" button when notifying about network + being down + (regression introduced in 2.35: "offer to install updates in + notifications") + +Version 2.37 - 19 March 2008, Olivier Blin + +- simplify network detection + +Version 2.36 - 14 March 2008, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet: + o bump copyright year + o do not check for network before first media test (#38991) + +Version 2.35 - 14 March 2008, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet: + o offer to install updates in notifications + +Version 2.34 - 12 March 2008, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet: + o do not keep complaining if nightly update cron had failled (#38531) + +Version 2.33 - 10 March 2008, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet: + o adapt to urpmi-5.9 (#38724) + +Version 2.32 - 5 March 2008, Thierry Vignaud + +- mdkapplet: + o check more often for network (#37701, #38004) + o do not crash if notfiy failed on ->show (#38496) + o do not notify if no network if already done + o make sure notifications' text doesn't got truncated + o use more modern API to check for updates + +Version 2.32 - Tue Feb 26 2008, Thierry Vignaud + +- lazy load Rpmdrake::open_db so that urpm really is lazy loaded at + runtime when forking checker + +Version 2.31 - Tue Feb 26 2008, Thierry Vignaud + +- make sure notifications' text doesn't got truncated + +Version 2.30 - Mon Feb 18 2008, Thierry Vignaud + +- update inactive backport media (#34620) + +Version 2.29 - Tue Feb 5 2008, Thierry Vignaud + +- increase initial check delayed from 60 seconds to 5 minutes +- make sure to not display any bubbles at all if no updates (#37451) +- really set nice priority +- use Gtk2::Notify instead of Gtk2::NotificationBubble (#37113) +- ues Gtk2::StatusIcon instead of Gtk2::TrayIcon +- hide icon when no updates are availlable (#29728) + +Version 2.28 - Fri Feb 1 2008, Thierry Vignaud + +- do not crash when icon is removed from the panel socket (#35908) +- do not display a bubble while checking updates (#36526) +- make mdkapplet aware again of network status (#35107) +- readd back tooltips regarding "initial check delay" +- try harder not to report false positives (#36358) + +Version 2.27 - Dec 11 2007, Thierry Vignaud + +- delay initial check by 1 mn instead of by 25 seconds +- do not display bubbles while waiting for the initial check + +Version 2.26 - Dec 05 2007, Thierry Vignaud + +- kill disconnect state (thus make mdkapplet works again w/o network) +- mdkapplet.conf: fix default update frequency + +Version 2.25 - Dec 04 2007, Thierry Vignaud + +- drop --debug option +- drop online registration wizard (obsolete since we locally compute + updates) +- drop web link from menu (was only relevant for web based Online + service) +- install config file for applet +- kill dead code +- renice checking updates at level 7 +- show Mandriva Linux site instead of old mdvonline one + +Version 2.24 - Oct 23 2007, Thierry Vignaud + +- use notification bubbles +- do not harcode icon extension + +Version 2.23.1 - Oct 02 2007, Thierry Vignaud + +- fix bogus catalog +- mdkapplet: + o fix a crash when /etc/mandriva-release isn't readable due to high msec + level (#34323)) + o run with reduced I/O priority (#33888) +- own /etc/cron.daily/mdkupdate (#33454) + +Version 2.22 - Sep 04 2007, Thierry Vignaud + +- improve About dialog + +Version 2.21 - Tue Dec 4 2007, Thierry Vignaud + +- drop --debug option +- drop online registration wizard (obsolete since we locally compute + updates) +- drop web link from menu (was only relevant for web based Online + service) +- install config file for applet +- kill dead code +- renice checking updates at level 7 +- show Mandriva Linux site instead of old mdvonline one |